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Happy Day Demetrius.
May you enjoy as many more as you wish.
Have a wonderful birthday (take the whole week!)
From a MLW member who is a real fan of your work - your contribution.
Plus I have a real fondness for your wife's voice.
Happy Day.
Happy Birthday, Demetrius!
Here's a big, scrumptuous, Deanlicious cake, just for you.
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SOYLENT DEAN!!!
Happy Birthday Demetrius!!
got a 9:15 bus to catch...
Night y'all.
Night Subway ♥ See ya tomorrow afternoon!
And I have to be at work at 6:30 am...
Happy Birthday Demetrius - make it one to remember!
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Sweet Dreams to all! ♥
My niece from Spain says hallo!!
It has been wonderful having her here with us!!!
Night Denise ♥'s
hi back to your niece, listener 
Just ahd to stay up to have cake ready for DDdemetrius, but it's time for me to turn in also.
♥'s to all
Kindness is free!
♥ {{{ jc }}} ♥
HUNTINGTON, Utah - A disastrous cave-in Thursday night killed a rescue worker and injured eight others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach six trapped miners, authorities said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20070...h_mine_collapse
We've got to stop mining like this.
Eek, my keyboard has a mouse inside, lol. Well, maybe it's operator error...
Nite everyone. Hugs.
I feel like ♥jc♥ is here in spirit today.
Happy birthday, Demetrius. And here's a very nice interview with our favorite governor. In fact two in one, another post included.
Howard Dean's interview with Helen Thomas a day or so ago.
http://journals.democraticunderg...dfloridian/
1435
It's a great interview, and I like how Helen Thomas sums it up...
"Dean is on the road four to six days a week, working to win support for the Democratic party. Now it's up to those wishy-washy candidates to promise a quick end to the war and to develop plans for universal health care if they want a winning Democratic ticket."
Helen Thomas ROCKS!!! ♥
Happy Birthday, Great One!
♥JC♥
Oh, listener, and earlier this evening they said on the news something about having renewed hope. This is terrible!
Bad news. Always bad news, everywhere you turn.
BTW having dealt with a fair number of shrinks and pseudo-shrinks, I can attest that they are to a person domineering, manipulative, voyeristic, sex-crazed arssholes. Even if Charlie wanted to talk to one, doing so would do nothing to help him or to clarify his own motivations and needs to him. Quiet and introspection and perhaps a loving friend to talk things over with is the medicine and therapy he needs. I pray he can have them soon, and far away from Florida!
Good night, friends.
Happy Birthday Demetrius!
Have a happy, Demetrius!
We were up in Berkeley getting our daughter moved to an apartment; lots of work, but it worked out fairly well, I think. Got a pretty decent desk at a yard sale, some put-it-together-yourself furniture at Ikea. I set up a cable modem and a wired/wireless router for the first time--easy as pie. Her roommate should be moved in by now, or very soon. By the time we left, the refrigerator was looking like my wife's--i.e., very well stocked! Last night and today for recovery.
Tomorrow (Friday) evening and most of Saturday at job No. 2 (rural hospital lab), then off to Seattle at 5:55 PM as an expert witness at a court martial. (It seems I am on the guvmint's list for this sort of thing now.) Getting psyched up for it at this point.
I am working up to the idea of getting a theremin kit for my birthday and Xmas, and learning to play it. (I figure if I actually go to the trouble of building it, I will be more psychologically invested in it and more likely to continue.) Still have to think about it some. Anyone else remember the thereminist and his sweetie who met as volunteers for Howard Dean & got hitched? In Minneapolis, as I recall.
Democrats Beware: An Economic Populist Is Rising In the GOP's Presidential Primary
By David Sirota, Working Assets. Posted August 14, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/workplac...e/59706/?
page=1
Well, dang! Go, MIke!
Thank you Mr. Family Values Compassionate Conservative:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/me...tion/
index.html
It's up to 3 rescuers dead at the mine...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20070...h_mine_collapse
And tonight I'm praying for my friend Tom in Manila after reports of chest-deep water there from Super-Typhoon Sepat! And it didn't even hit, it just grazed them on the way by!
Poor little Taiwan is about to get smacked by Sepat head-on! Two cities of over a million people are in its path.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/
as...tion=cnn_latest
Typhoon Sepat was expected to smack into the cities of Kaohsiung and Taichung, both with populations of over 1 million, early on Saturday and then pummel the Chinese coast, according to Tropical Storm Risk.
As of 0030 GMT, the typhoon was 410 km (256 miles) southeast of Taiwan and moving northwest at 18 kph with sustained winds of 184 kph and gusts up to 227 kph, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said. It issued a land warning late on Thursday.
http://www.wunderground.com/
trop...at.html#a_topad
Catreona...
Actually, I had to have a full-fledged psychiatric workup when I was in the Episcopal ordination process,
which was conducted by a wonderful Jewish psychiatrist.
If I had need of a shrink and he were still in practice,
I wouldn't hesitate to see him.
Some folks in the biz are truly trustworthy and wise.
Worth hunting for like a pearl of great price.
I hope Charlie gets a good person for it.
At any rate, I'm sure Charlie will be a breath of fresh air
given what most folks may be like who are sent for an evaluation, by the judicial system!
Gotta go fall into bed.
Loves to all.
Remember, good and loving folks gather here.
The world has heaps of good folks!!
And one of them has a birthday today!
Happy Birthday Demetrius! Hope you have a very good day all day and all year!
listener | Homepage | 08.17.07 - 2:57 am |
As usual, thanks for being a voice of reason on this blog.
Cat, your blanket statement about professionals in the psychological and psychiatric field was rude and unfair to all of the good ones (and there are many) out there. Any professional field has its screw ups.
You seem to like to lash out alot lately, especially at some of our own HEPsters. I hope everything is all right with you.
leaving for VT.
Gizmo meets the Deaniacs!
w00t!
Have a great time Subway!!!
xoxoxoox
Well I guess the good thing about getting to work so early is there won't be anyohe on the road.
Today we are hosting several clinical trial investigators and study coordinators for a new solid tumor (multiple cancers) trial. They will learn the protocol to collect the data, and how to submit it.
The caterer is due any minute so I have to run.
To all gathering in Vermont this weekend I'm with you in spirit!! Have fun. Safe travels.
I'm off to VT in a few, too. Like subway says, "When two or more are gathered in Dean's name the whole community is there."
Fed just lowered the discount window rates for banks
Rescue work at the mine suspended indefinitely...
Alan, hope you're all recovered from the arduous task of moving your daughter in Was that Dean couple Joy and Bruce?
Yikes! Just reading email and someone says there was a tornado in Rutland yesterday? Can't find any info on it... anyone know?
Gotta go...
♥'s to all
Kindness if free!
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Happy Happy day to ya Demetrius!
Demetrius is starting his birthday with a meeting with a new client. At our house. So the kids and I are going to make ourselves scarce for a bit. Back later.
Happy birthday to Demetrius. Remember, D. Age ain't nothing but a number (at least to those of us who refuse to look at a calendar...or a mirror. 
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Was thinking about that "court ordererd psychiatric evaluation." Remember who is the court ordering it. They are NOT looking out for Charlie's welfare.
Alacua lurkers!
My thingy didn't work in my last post. So I'll just wish the Alachua lurkers good morning.
A very Happy Birthday to Demetrius and to My Favorite Daughter.
♫Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to Demetrius!
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuu!♫
WOW! August 17, 2007
It's Demetrius' illustrious birthday AND National Nurse Teri is going to be on the radio!
All you in Rutland...how about tuning in and calling in a question?
(Could make it a House Party for Healthcare!)
Here's the scoop (from the National Nurse Newsletter) :
Live Today on WRCR AM-Health in 30™
Why establish an Office of the National Nurse? Nurses and supporters of this grassroots campaign say a National Nurse is needed to combat the nursing shortage and to provide the leadership necessary to shift the nation into a culture of prevention. Tune in on Friday, August 17th from 5:30pm to 6:00pm EST and find out more.
Nurse Educator and Activist Teri Mills, President of the National Nursing Network Organization joins Barbara Ficarra, Host/Producer of Health in 30™ for an interview. If you’re in the New York City listening area set your dial to WRCR AM 1300 Radio Rockland (http://wrcr.com )or go online to http://healthin30.com/home.cfm and click the WRCR logo to listen live.
Please call in with your questions and comments-the number is
845-624-1300.
Office of the National Nurse Featured on AM 620 KPOJ Radio
Thank you to radio host Thom Hartmann for inviting Teri Mills on his Portland, Oregon Air America affiliate to provide an update about the efforts to establish an Office of the National Nurse. If you would like an opportunity to hear the interview in its entirety visit
http://www.pccfce.org/
National_N...n_interview.mp3
Schneider and Mills Live On Clackamas County (Oregon) Cable TV
Teri Mills and Alisa Schneider join host Larry Skidmore at 8:00 pm next Tuesday, August 21, 2007 on Willamette Falls Cable Access (Comcast Channels 18 or 23 for those of you living in Clackamas County). Questions and comments are welcome during this live interview. The number to call is 503-650-0198.
Plans are underway for this show to be repeated at least 17 times over the next few weeks in the Tri-County Portland Metropolitan area. Log on to www.wftvaccess.com, click on Programming, click on round symbol Channel 23/18 East/West, scroll to find program name (the program is called Clackamas County Democratic Party) and if you see the three letters CAN to the left of the program, this means it will be available on your local Cable Channel (most likely this will be Channel 11).
Contributions Greatly Appreciated
www.nationalnurse.org
The person meeting with Demetrius showed up almost half an hour early. Which would hopefully mean they should be done any time now.
*Taps fingers impatiently*
Kids and I have finished what we needed to do, and are hanging out at the library waiting for the all-clear to come home.
There's a photo of National Nurse Teri at this site, too!
http://healthin30.com/subpage.cf...m?tbl=22&
id=249
GO NATIONAL NURSE!!
Wow, a potential new client for Demetrius?
Now THAT'S a birthday present!
Sure hope you all get to party soon!
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Demetrius is pretty ♮ .
A sweet day to you!! ♥
It's so cool that Demetrius created ♭ Howard.
♕ Demetrius ♕ King for a day ♕
Ooh--the flat symbol appeared for me.
Some of the others didn't. Will have to see if they do on my home computer. Heading there now.
I'll be interested to hear!!!
Okay, now I have to go get more done on the grandbaby quilt...
as the due date gets closer!
T minus two days and hoping!!
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WEIRD!!!
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If Charlie has to have a psych eval, there should be some way he could have an *independent* evaluation--one not done by someone working for that whole Alachua cabal.
Thankful...it was not quite a tornado:
Powerful storms ripped through northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire Thursday evening, damaging property, downing trees and cutting power to thousands.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning during the afternoon, but late Thursday night confirmed that it was not, in fact, a twister. Instead, it was what they call straight-line wind damage, with winds estimated at 70 miles an hour. Still, people affected by the storm have a lot of damage to deal with.
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story...y.asp?
S=6944871
'Afternoon, All! Thanks for the birthday wishes! What's the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe and Everything? ..."How *old* are you?" Who'da thunk it would be so simple?
Interesting meeting. Interesting person. And, if we can keep our conversation from veering off into politics at every turn, we might get into some interesting projects. There's a lot of potential there.
Winds reached 90mph in North Hero...a town on the islands on Lake Champlain.
Oooooooohhhh, a birthday with POTENTIAL!
Yeeeaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhh!
Happy Cake Day, Demetrius! ♥
Category 2 Hurricane Dean has crossed the lesser Antilles and has started to intensify:
http://www.wunderground.com/trop...g/
at200704.html
"SusanD | 08.17.07 - 9:31 am | #"
Happy Birthday, DaughterD!
All good prayers and vibes for little Taiwan today!!!
Here's the tracking (note the curving China coast):
http://www.wunderground.com/
trop...09.html#a_topad
Now look at the satellite image of this monster!
http://www.wunderground.com/
trop...at.html#a_topad
Folks way down in Manila had chest-deep water, and the storm merely grazed them.
Two of the cities in Taiwan that will take a direct hit today
have over a million people each!!
'Afternoon, All! Thanks for the birthday wishes! What's the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe and Everything? ..."How *old* are you?" Who'da thunk it would be so simple?
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Don't forget, it only works for a year, lol!
Happy one, Sweet One!
I just forwarded this to Thankful, but in case she or someone else is reading who needs to know, subway missed his bus and will arrive in bellows falls at 7:50 pm
Oh my, not very good news about Charlie....
http://www.highspringsherald.com/
The pictures are heartbreaking. I've tried calling the Sheriff that seems to be one of his allies, Sadie Darnell, but got voice mail. I tried a few other numbers but they all go into voicemail.
Subway had a great idea about sending money so he can get some things in the commissary.
At least the psych that he talked to said he was not a sucicide threat and they took him out of the "straightjacket."
I hope he can get bailed out soon. He's refusing to eat and the medical care seems very substandard at the jail.
I called Thankful to let her know that Subway missed his bus. She was waiting at the station (good line from a Stones song!)
She'll come back to pick him up.
Thanks for the heads up Renee
LIVE!!! NOW!!!
National Nurse Teri on the radio!!!
http://wrcr.com
Please call in with your questions and comments!
845-624-1300
The story and picture of Charlie (I didn't have the heart to look at the rest of them) ARE truly heartbreaking. What kind of country have we become?
I'll post the link at BFA. They should know what is happening to one of our best and brightest.
Oh, and since you're lurking, Alachua, Charlie has friends all over the country. This is not taking place in the dark.
That's AM 1300 NYC!!!
(you can also listen online at their website.)
Hi donna, hi listener!
I'm waiting for this meeting to end so I can get on with my weekend.
First they say they'll end early; now it's running overtime and the ground transportation is waiting down in the parking lot to take them to the airport or back downtown.
I just want to get out of this monkeyette suit!
JUST SENT THIS TO ALL THREE OF MY LEGISLATORS:
Pat Leahy, Bernie Sanders, and Peter Welch...
I am very concerned that a well-respected Howard Dean supporter, who has offered workshops on Government at DemocracyFests, needs medical attention for a possible brain injury obtained through police brutality and mistreatment at the hands of small town police who have a vendetta against him for exposing voting corruption there.
The editor of Florida's High Springs Herald has interviewed this doctoral candidate in jail; below is the article from the interview. This story has a long history behind it of documented town corruption. Can you tell me who I should contact with my outrage? What do you see as his options?
Much thanks for your help!
Breaking News
Grapski not eating, says he is being mistreated in jail
By Ronald Dupont Jr.
Herald Editor
ALACHUA – Having not eaten since Sunday night, Alachua political activist Charlie Grapski sat in a jail cell interview room Thursday and made allegations of mistreatment by police and of inadequate medical treatment or no treatment at all inside the county jail.
With multiple black bruises on his arms, a 2-inch cut on his face and sleepy, red eyes, Grapski sat in a locked room at the Alachua County jail and spoke with High Springs Herald Editor Ronald Dupont Jr., who sat on the other side of a steel grate.
At least four times during the interview, Grapski stopped talking, stared partway at the ceiling and lost track of time until Dupont called his name.
Grapski said that when Alachua police arrested him Monday, they slammed his head into a door and that he got dizzy and lost track of time, not realizing what was happening until he was being dragged down an indoor hallway to a city holding cell.
Later, at the county jail, after a court hearing held over a 2-way television set-up, he had heart palpitations and passed out, hitting his head on a metal bench, then landing face first on the floor, he said.
When he awoke, he said, he received no medical treatment and that Sheriff’s deputies laughed at him and said he was running into walls, trying to hurt himself.
Sitting in a wheelchair with his arms and legs shackled Thursday, Grapski said the only freedom he has left is the choice of whether to eat – and he chooses not to, he said.
More at: http://www.highspringsherald.com/
I just got Firsties on the BBB
giving Howard and Charlie their due. ♥ ♥
Thanks, listener.
Just sent this to the editor of the High Springs Herald:
rdupont@highspringsherald.com
Dear Mr. Dupont,
Please accept my heartfelt thanks for interviewing Charlie Grapski in jail, telling his story, and for letting him know that his friends are worried about him. I have contacted my legislators about this situation, Sen. Pat Leahy, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Peter Welch, and linked them to your article.
Many of us wish deeply that Charlie would leave Alachua, because his pearls are being cast before swine there. We also know he has a deep sense of right and wrong and will not lightly back down. I hope it won't be the death of him.
A friend of mine received a traumatic brain injury when she slipped in her kitchen and banged her head on the counter as she fell. She lives alone, but got to an E.R., where they x-rayed her and sent her home telling her it was just a concussion. A week later she was still having dizzy spells and went to her regular doctor. After a series of medical missteps (this is still a new science in many ways), a month later she finally learned from a specialist that she had a brain injury and that it would have been best for her recovery if she had had an MRI right away, with treatment beginning swiftly. So it seems to me unconscionable that Charlie has not had proper (or even minimal!) medical treatment.
He did nothing worth being beaten or even handcuffed for. What on earth is going on down there? Thank you for caring to bring this to the public eye.
Can you tell me how someone can contribute to the funds Charlie can use at the jail? What address or phone number needs to be contacted, and by what process are we allowed to do this? If you know of a fund already set up for this purpose, please point me.
Many thanks. I have been following this story for over a year and am utterly astounded and dismayed that it continues.
Gratefully,
good letter, Thanks listener.
Let us know of his reponse
Reposting this from the previous comment thread:
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The reason this new attack is happening to Charlie now is because our dual office holding suit against Watson has resulted in the Florida Retirement Service switching his retirement status from "high risk" police pension to a "senior management" status all city managers have. This move alone saved taxpayers over $1,000,000 in undeserved pension benefits that Watson would have collected if the scam had not been challenged. Needless to say Watson is PISSED. There are quite a few in Alachua who know what's coming down and fear for Charlie's life.
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And when Charlie wanted to file a complaint, he was told that Clovis Watson could take the complaint. That sounds an awful lot like "talk to the hand".
I appreciate how Editor Dupont ended the article...
be sure to read to the end!
He pretty much corroborates Charlie's take on the attitudes around him!
The fact that we are watching...
with the help of the High Springs Herald's cameras and folks like Ronald Dupont and Michael Canney
makes it really hard for them to kill Charlie and get away with it.
I SOOO want Charlie outta there!!!
And away from there forever!!!
I am immensely grateful to Editor Dupont for telling Charlie we are worried about him!!!
He knows we know and are pulling for him.
That may give him more comfort than anything else.
Monica Smith
Fri, 08/17/07
7:19 pm
on the BBB, wrote:
I think you all would do better sending email to Joe Little, the lawyer who's been helping charlie
Little@law.ufl.edu
seashell at BBB is calling for a bat for Charlie,
but you know they'll never do it.
Can we have one here?
If so, I'll link it over there.
Anybody got a link to a synopsis of Charlie's story?
seashell wants to send it along to Keith Olbermann!
I'm not sure what you're asking for, listener. Where would the money go?
Don't know of a good synopsis, but this piece from The Conservative Voice, written back in March, is a pretty sympathetic description of the situation in Alachua, and Charlie's past run-ins with the powers that be
http://www.theconservativevoice....icle/
23141.html
Editor Dupont mentioned a fund that Charlie can access from inside jail.
At any rate, Renee, there's no question but that Charlie is going to need money. Can't we collect it and work out the where to send later?
Sitka has incited a filibuster at the BBB
and no one is willing to post about anything except Charlie
until a bat is put up for Charlie!
Monica just pointed out that it's Friday evening,
so DFA may not even know until Monday.
Sigh.
Pretty please?
It would be good to go over to BBB and tell them we have a bat here!
And I have already emailed Charlie's legal help, Atty Joe Little, as well as Editor Dupont, asking where to send it.
I don't mean to dump that project into your lap on Demetrius' day of days, though!
Can anyone else here put up a bat here
if Renee gives the nod?
The only place we've been told that donations can be sent is here:
Donations to the Grapski Defense can be sent to PO Box 190, Alachua, FL 32616.
Email: chicoverde at cox dot net.
Is that for bail, or for a lawyer, or what?
I know that a few people have expressed an interest in donating to a fund that Charlie could use in the commisary.
So I *really* don't know what is meant by wanting a bat. What words would accompany it? Where would people be sending money?
If there *is* a bat here, people are going to be asking questions, and I don't know the answers.
I gave seashell the link, Renee, and she sent it with another I gave her to Keith Olbermann.
If folks have feelings about how to use the funds, please speak up.
As for me, I don't care...I just think we need to get started.
There's a new thread.
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